Transactional workloads have storage request streams consisting of many small, independent, random requests. Flash memory is well suited to these types of access patterns, but is not always cost-effective. This thesis presents a novel storage architecture called the SD Storage Array (SDSA), which adopts a many-device approach. It utilizes many flash storage devices in the form of an array of Secure Digital (SD) cards. This approach leverages the commodity status of SD cards to pursue a cost-effective means of providing the high throughput that transactional workloads require. Characterization of a prototype revealed that when the request stream was 512B randomly addressed reads, the SDSA provided 1.5 times the I/O operations per second (IOPS) of a top-of-the-line solid state drive, provided there were at least eight requests in-flight. A scale-out simulation showed the IOPS should scale with the size of the array, provided there are no upstream bottlenecks.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OTU.1807/42978 |
Date | 29 November 2013 |
Creators | Katsuno, Ian |
Contributors | Moshovos, Andreas |
Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
Language | en_ca |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Thesis |
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